Parameter: depth_comment

Short Description: depth_comment

Short Name: depth_comment

Official Name: depth_comment

Units: dimensionless

No Data Value: nd

Description

description of water mass where sample was collected, for example, mixed layer or deep chlorophyll maximum.

Parameter Occurences in Datasets (15)

Dataset	PI-Supplied Description	PI-Supplied Name
Counts of Prochlorococcus from on-deck incubations with 13C-bicarbonate as part of DNA-SIP experiments conducted on Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) cruises, HOT283 and HOT288 in 2016	Sample depth; DCM = deep chlorophyll maxium	depth
BIOS-SCOPE survey biogeochemical data as collected on Atlantic Explorer cruises (AE1614, AE1712, AE1819, AE1916) from 2016 through 2019	Vertical Zone designation where vertical layers 0 to 10 are defined by dynamical and biogeochemical criteria (see Table 1 under Supplemental Files)	VertZone
Sampling data from Gelatinous Zooplankton project from R/V Hugh R. Sharp multiple cruises in Chesapeake Bay from 2010-2011 (DeZoZoo project)	Depth of a net: surface= surface to above pycnocline; pycnocline = through pycnocline; below pycnocline = between bottom and pycnocline; bottom = bottom to below pycnocline	depth_relative
Hydrolysis rates from bulk samples, plate reader results from RV/Endeavor EN556, 2015 (Patterns of activities project)	depth description: sequence of depths sampled with 1 is surface and higher numbers at greater depths	depth_no
Hydrolysis rates from bulk water sample incubations from R/V Endeavor cruise EN556 in 2015	depth description: sequence of depths sampled with 1 is surface and higher numbers at greater depths	depth_no
Bacterial protein production on particles obtained by gravity filtration of water collected on RV/Endeavor EN556 (Patterns of activities project)	depth description: sequence of depths sampled with 1 is surface and higher numbers at greater depths	depth_id
Hydrolysis rates from incubations on particles obtained by gravity filtration of water collected on RV/Endeavor EN556 (Patterns of activities project)	depth description: sequence of depths sampled with 1 is surface and higher numbers at greater depths	depth_no
Hydrolysis rates from gravity filtered samples, plate reader results from RV/Endeavor EN556, 2015 (Patterns of activities project)	depth description: sequence of depths sampled with 1 is surface and higher numbers at greater depths	depth_no
Large volume incubation: DOC, bacterial cell concentration and production from RV/Endeavor EN556, June 2015 (Patterns of activities project)	depth description: sequence of depths sampled with 1 is surface and higher numbers at greater depths	depth_id
Measurements of nutrients, bacterial cell concentration and bacterial production from RV/Endeavor EN556, June 2015 (Patterns of activities project)	depth description: sequence of depths sampled with 1 is surface and higher numbers at greater depths	depth_id
Measurements of polysaccharide hydrolase activities in large volume mesocosm incubations RV/Endeavor EN584, July 2016 (Patterns of activities project)	depth description: sequence of depths sampled with 1 is surface and higher numbers at greater depths	depth_id
Microbial enzymatic activities from seawater and from particle-associated seawater communities from Greenland, August 2015 (Patterns of activities project)	depth description: sequence of depths sampled with 1 is surface and higher numbers at greater depths	depth_id
Trace element concentrations in particles from R/V Knorr KN199-04, KN204-01 in the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean from 2010-2011 (U.S. GEOTRACES NAT project)	water mass description at sample depth	depth_comment
Plankton net flow meter calibration data from the R/V Gaia cruise off of La Jolla, California in July 2015 (Nearshore larval transport project)	depth strata: surface; mid-depth; bottom	depth_comment
Temperature time-series data from 4 depths in the Central California kelp forest, measured at the Stillwater Cove Mooring from 2010-2012 (Climate Change Kelp project)	Description of the depth within the water column at which the temperature logger was positioned.	depth_comment